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"appropriate" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often befitting (9 letters).
Definitions
suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
Word origin
From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).
Used in a sentence
“Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.”
“A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.”
“to appropriate money for the increase of the navy”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Right for the situation”11 letters
02“Suitable”11 letters
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